Insurer Profits Are Up In The Wake Of Health Care Law They Opposed
Since insurance companies undertook extensive lobbying efforts against health care reform -- spending millions in an attempt to derail the legislation...
Since insurance companies undertook extensive lobbying efforts against health care reform -- spending millions in an attempt to derail the legislation...
online.wsj.com | Posted 12.13.2011
Call it the united state of health care. Amid enormous pressure to cut costs, improve care and prepare for changes tied to the federal health-care ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.04.2011
WASHINGTON -- Though many of the people they care for wouldn’t know it, the roughly two million home care aides who tend to the elderly and disabled...
HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 11.09.2011
As the federal government pushes to digitize health records, current security practices are inadequate to defend against a growing number of data brea...
Posted 11.06.2011
(Reuters) - The powerful healthcare industry hopes a congressional "super committee" tasked with slashing America's debt will fail and is lobbying...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 10.10.2011
A dwindling number of patients, combined with oncoming Medicare and Medicaid cuts, are making more likely the prospect of nonprofit hospitals being is...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 09.17.2011
Family caregivers performed about $450 billion worth of unpaid labor in the U.S. in 2009, a new study from the AARP has found, according to NPR. Th...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 07.20.2011
More than one year after President Barack Obama signed health care reform into law, one thing hasn't changed: doctors are well paid. The Bureau Of ...
latimes.com | Duke Helfand | Posted 05.25.2011
They have few options other than dropping coverage as insurers raise rates and slash benefits. Insurers blame the soaring cost of medical care and the...
ProPublica | Olga Pierce | Posted 05.25.2011
Four years ago, a group of lawmakers and aides crafted Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program for seniors that has produced billions of dollar...
Yuna Shin | Posted 05.25.2011
The word "industry" itself is apt in describing our current insurance system. Under "industry" we assume that there is a concrete, external object produced through human labor that is insurable.
AFP | Posted 05.25.2011
Lack of adequate health care may have contributed to the deaths of some 17,000 US children over the past two decades, according to a study released by...
Barry Sears | Posted 11.17.2011
Health care providers are making too much money. So what is the solution? Less health insurance, not more, may be the answer. Fewer food subsidies, not more, might be a start.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Max Baucus was paid handsomely (in campaign contributions) by the health care industry to deliver a health care reform bill that only the health care ...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't blame the health care companies. I would do the same thing in their position. They'd have to be stupid and negligent not to buy Max Baucus. I don't blame them, I blame us.
Grist | Posted 05.25.2011
First in The New York Times last week and then on NPR this weekend, Michael Pollan made that point that if we want to fix our health-care system, we h...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
BISMARCK, N.D. -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota used premium payments to fund $15 million in employee bonuses, cover $35,000 for a retirement...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the things that gets obscured by the huge sums of money being spent by lobbyists to degrade, deride, and defuse legislation is that in reality,...
Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 05.25.2011
As liberal protesters marched outside, Sen. Max Baucus sat down inside a San Francisco mansion for a dinner of chicken cordon bleu and a discussion o...
AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The drug industry's trade group and one of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical companies reported spending more money than other he...
Doug Schoen | Posted 05.25.2011
Bringing industry leaders into the legislative process diffuses one of the biggest threats to comprehensive health care reform.
Doug Schoen | Posted 05.25.2011
By sitting down at the table and agreeing to sacrifice for the cause of health care reform, the drug industry is moving the process in the right direction.
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011
What we have seen over the last several decades is the systemic fraud perpetrated by private insurance companies, private drug companies, and private for-profit hospitals ripping off the American people.
FiveThirtyEight.com | Posted 05.25.2011
As I lamented yesterday, health care is one of those areas where both popular opinion and sound public policy seem to take a backseat to protecting th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The firm that houses two of the three former Senate majority leaders who proposed a comprehensive health care compromise plan on Wednesday has been pa...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.06.2012